McCarthy
McCarthy is a census-designated place in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The population was 107 at the 2020 census, up from 28 in 2010.Photo: James Brooks, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Eric Spenle, CC BY 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
McCarthy Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
McCarthy Airport is a state owned, public use airport located one nautical mile northeast of the central business district of McCarthy, in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Localities in the Area
Kennecott
Hamlet
Kennecott, also known as Kennicott and Kennecott Mines, is an abandoned mining camp in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines.
McCarthy
- Type: Locality with 28 residents
- Description: Small community in southeast Alaska
- Category: census-designated place in the United States
- Location: Copper River, Southcentral Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.4612° or 61° 27' 40" northLongitude
-142.8857° or 142° 53' 9" westPopulation
28Elevation
426 metres (1,398 feet)IATA airport code
MXYOpen Location Code
93HVF467+FPOpenStreetMap ID
way 32984706OpenStreetMap Feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
5868505Wikidata ID
Q590790McCarthy Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Catalan: McCarthy
- Chechen: Маккарти (Аляска)
- Chechen: Маккарти
- Chinese: McCarthy
- Chinese: 麥卡錫
- Chinese: 麦卡锡
- Dutch: McCarthy
- English: McCarthy, AK
- English: McCarthy, Alaska
- English: Shushanna Junction
- French: McCarthy
- German: McCarthy
- Hungarian: McCarthy
- Irish: McCarthy
- Italian: McCarthy
- Japanese: マッカーシー
- Min Nan Chinese: McCarthy
- Nepali: मिककार्थी, अलास्का
- Newari: मिककार्थी (अलास्का)
- Newari: मिककार्थी, अलास्का
- Newari: मिककार्थी
- Persian: مککارتی، آلاسکا
- Portuguese: McCarthy
- Russian: Мак-Карти
- Russian: Маккарти (Аляска)
- Russian: Маккарти
- Serbian: Макарти (Аљаска)
- Serbian: Макарти
- Serbo-Croatian: McCarthy, Alaska
- Serbo-Croatian: McCarthy
- South Azerbaijani: مککارتی، آلاسکا
- Spanish: McCarthy
- Spanish: McCarthy, Alaska
- Tatar: Маккарти (Аляска)
- Tatar: Маккарти
- Ukrainian: Маккарті
- Volapük: McCarthy
- Western Mari: МакКарти
Other Places Named McCarthy
Localities in the Area
- McCarthyHamlet, 3½ km southwest
- Glacier MineLocality, 6 km north
- Bonanza MineLocality, 6 km northeast
- Jumbo MineLocality, 7 km north
- Mother Lode MineLocality, 8 km northeast
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page McCarthy. Photo: Eric Spenle, CC BY 3.0.